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• If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

  Bob Dylan

  Years, Important, Want

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Various polls have indicated that approximately 10% of Americans (25 million people) have seen them at close range so that details of the structure of the object can be discerned.

  Steven M. Greer

  People, Details, Range

  Steven M. Greer (1999). “Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications”, Crossing Point Incorporated

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• What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.

  R. D. Laing

  Depression, Denial, Normal

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• Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Nails, Decay

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• Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, War, Voice

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Mathematical, Understood

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.16, Princeton University Press

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• Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

  Lina Bo Bardi

  Issues, Political, Architecture

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• Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life.

  Riffat Hassan

  Giving, Certain

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• On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you. I believe that if you find yourself enslaved inside a controlling church structure of legalism and bondage, then you are already being persecuted! So many Christians seem impossibly distracted from hearing God's voice. Instead of listening to that still, small voice that brings true peace and joy, they blindly follow the voices of mainstream religion. The worst kind of persecution for a Christian is when you are separated from the joy and presence of the Holy Spirit.

  Brother Yun

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

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• My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

  Anton Yelchin

  Growing Up, Should Have, Parent

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• We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right.

  Jane Fonda

  Leader, Peaceful, Soldier

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• I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

  Helen Reddy

  Order, Balance, Chaos

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• The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Understanding, Important

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• I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

  Julie Christie

  People, Never Quit, Marry Me

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• I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

  Peter Jurasik

  Philosophical, Church, Way

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• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

  Brian May

  Spiritual, Stars, Simple

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• I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

  Shirley Jones

  Home, Kids, Facts

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• As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

  Emily Watson

  Cameras, Actors, Rooms

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• There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

  Andrew Fastow

  Opportunity, People, Way

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• Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.

  Susan Howe

  Children, Writing, Comforting

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• Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?

  Susan Howe

  Order, Sentences

  Susan Howe (2007). “My Emily Dickinson”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Expression, Brain, Fundamentals

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.112, Guilford Publications

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• Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.

  Dieter Zetsche

  Full Potential, Action, Process

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• The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.

  Ziauddin Sardar

  Lying, Roots, Shapes

  Ziauddin Sardar, Ehsan Masood (2006). “How do you know?: reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, science and cultural relations”, Pluto Pr

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• Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.

  Margot Adler

  Mean, Dark, Views

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